Change the time zone in Codeigniter

Question

my project is hosted on shared server and i want to change the timezone to Asia/Kolkata. i have tried setting timezone using htaccess file but failed.

Answer 1

Another good practice is to put it in the CI_Controller class, right in the __construct function:

public function __construct() {
    date_default_timezone_set( 'Asia/Kolkata' );
    self::$instance =& $this;
    // the rest of the code...